State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: Colorado vs Maryland
Optometrists in Maryland earn a median of $165,840. In Colorado, $152,000. After cost-of-living, the gap is 6.7% — not 8.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-8.3%
Colorado vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
-6.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Colorado
Optometrists
- Median
- $152,000
- p25
- $110,020
- p75
- $169,190
- p10
- $65,910
- p90
- $212,120
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.1
Maryland
Optometrists
- Median
- $165,840
- p25
- $81,780
- p75
- $201,810
- p10
- $50,560
- p90
- $215,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Cost-of-living adjustment from BEA Regional Price Parities (overall index). Hiring velocity from DOL OFLC public disclosure data, recent 180 days vs prior. See methodology.